Canadian athletes on outside as Carney government's 1st budget sees no new sports funding

Canada's summer and winter Olympians, along with other athletes, were left on the outside during Tuesday’s budget announcement by the federal government, despite a push in recent months by the Canadian Olympic Committee and national sport organizations for more resources.

In Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first budget delivered by Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne, no new funding is allocated toward sports in the announcement, with 2005 representing the most recent increase in core federal funding for Canada’s 62 federally funded NSOs.

Core funding is money the sport organizations rely on to fund operations, athletes, coaches and support staff.

The ask this year was a $144 million increase to offset two decades without a significant boost that appear as millions of dollars of d